Chinese firms must report origin of Vietnamese fruits

Hanoi (VNA) - Chinese businesses
importing Vietnamese fruits must provide information about the origin and
quality of the products following import procedures from April 1, 2018.

This was announced by the Asia-Africa Market
Department under the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade.

The department said the ministry had recently
received requests from the provincial authorities to trace the origin of
Vietnamese fruits imported by China via border gates in Guangxi province.

Thus, from April 1, Chinese enterprises
importing fruits from Vietnam must provide packaging images containing
traceability and quality information of product when they follow the procedures
for getting imported animal and plant quarantine permits at Guangxi’s import
quarantine management agency.

The department said the enterprises must list
the names of the fruits and their origin as well as the name and code of the
packaging facilities either in Chinese or English.

In addition to this, businesses can add labels
with the above-mentioned information, bar code, quick response code or
anti-counterfeiting stamp to be able to be checked any time.

According to the department, in 2017, the
General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of
China gave permission to four border gates in Guangxi province to import
fruits. Currently, the province has seven border gates allowed the import of
fruits.

Meanwhile, Guangxi province also imports fruits
from Vietnam that have preferential loans for businesses importing them,
including dragon fruits, longan and mango.

The Pingxiang China-ASEAN Fruit Import and
Export Chamber said the demand for imported fruits in China was huge. Fruit
imports in Pingxiang city alone accounts for nearly 50 percent of China’s total
fruit imports.-VNA